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France's head coach Didier Deschamps and Senegal's head coach Pape Thiaw. Photo: FRANCK FIFE / AFP
Senegal coach, Pape Thiaw, insisted on Monday that the controversy of January’s Africa Cup of Nations final was firmly a thing of the past as his side focuses on the World Cup and their opening opponents, France.
“I am not going to go back over the AFCON, that’s behind us. This is the World Cup. We have prepared well for it, and we are focused on tomorrow’s match,” Thiaw said of Tuesday’s Group I clash at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
It is almost exactly five months since January’s Cup of Nations final in Rabat, in which Senegal beat Morocco 1-0 after extra time.
